#Chapter 36: Anatomy Ace

Nina

I had an anatomy exam the next day and after my shift with Tiffany I needed to get some studying done. It was nice and sunny out, which was a welcome relief after the weather being gloomy and rainy for the past couple of days, so I decided to find a spot to sit under a tree where there were few people.

A few minutes after I sat down in a spot a little ways out from campus in a quiet park, Luke showed up. He walked over to me and stood right in the way of the light.

“You’re blocking the sunlight,” I said, not looking up from my notebook.

“Oh. Sorry,” he said, stepping out of the way. He continued to stand there, just staring at me. I tried my best to ignore it in the hopes that he would just go away since I was not in a good mood

at all after seeing Enzo’s hickey, but he didn’t budge. Finally, I slammed down my pencil and glared up at him.

“If you’re gonna hang around, at least sit down or something,” I growled.

“Okay.” He immediately plopped down on the ground.

I couldn’t help but smirk a bit, amused

by his doglike obedience.

“What’s so funny?” he asked, cocking his head. As he did so, I could hear the faint rattle of his vertebrae clacking together.

“Nothing,” I replied, returning to my work. “You’re just… Do you have any thoughts of your own?”

Luke was silent for several moments

course I

said finally.

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in my studying and thought for sure that he had gone dormant or something, he suddenly spoke again. novelxo.com

you made a

up suddenly and furrowed my

there. You got your terms mixed up. It’s occipital bone, not parietal bone. The parietal bone is over here.” He pointed to another spot

notes for a moment,

he was right

so I could fix

“Thanks,” I muttered.

No problem.

was silent again for several more minutes. I became absorbed in my studying again, only to notice eventually that he was inching

he muttered,

and looked up from my

supporting the lacrimal apparatus. That would be the

again, I realized that Luke was right. I fixed my

you know all this?” I

at me,” Luke said, gesturing to himself. “I am a skeleton, after all. And

up on things here

you’re right,” I said. “Do you have any other pointers you can give me, then? I really

“Yes, actually…”

spent the afternoon together under the tree while he helped me study. He was a surprisingly good anatomy tutor, even going so far as to show me where all of the bones were on his own skeleton. He was incredibly literal and couldn’t take a joke, but it was still surprisingly nice to spend time with someone who wasn’t either trying to backstab me or

end of our “tutoring” session,

two things:

anatomy, and

friend.

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